MetroScan: A Quick Scan Appraisal Capability to Identify Value Adding Sustainable Transport Initiatives

One of the most important features of comprehensive land use and transport planning is an ability to identify candidate projects and policies that are adding value to the sustainable performance of transport networks and to the economy as a whole. Standard methods of identifying a shortlist of projects to assess are often qualitative in nature and/or influenced by prejudices of elected officials or their advisers without a systematic way of narrowing the many potential options to evaluate, in sufficient detail, a truly value-adding set. There is a case to be made for having a capability to undertake, in a timely manner, a scan of a large number of potentially worthy projects and policies that can offer forecasts of passenger and freight demand, benefit–costs ratios and economy-wide outcomes. Such a framework would then be meaningful in the sense of offering outputs that are similar to those that are the focus of assessments that are typically spread over many months, if not years, on very few projects, which may exclude those which have the greatest merit. This paper introduces MetroScan, a strategic-level transport and land use planning application system that allows for mapping of passenger and freight activity, as well as an endogenous treatment of the location of households and firms. We summarise the analytical framework of MetroScan and show its capability (including the many useful outputs) with a case study for a 25 percent reduction in public transport fares across the entire network.

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An Integrated Approach to Transportation and Land-Use Planning for the Analysis of Former Railway Nodes in Sustainable Transport Development: The Case of the Vasco-Navarro Railway

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13010322 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 322

Author(s):

Arritokieta Eizaguirre-Iribar ◽

Olatz Grijalba ◽

Rufino Javier Hernández-Minguillón

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Sustainable Transport ◽

Surrounding Environment ◽

Linear Infrastructure ◽

Motorized Transport

The disappearance of kilometers of railways that once structured their surrounding territory has become an alarming issue in the last decades. These days, several disused railway infrastructures have been converted into non-motorized transport infrastructures. Meanwhile, most of the railway nodes have been abandoned or reused without consideration of the linear infrastructure. This paper argues that former railway nodes can have potential in their surrounding environment and as part of a non-motorized transport axis, i.e., to again be nodes of the former linear infrastructure. Accordingly, the objective of the paper is to analyze the potential of disused railway nodes, focusing on the possibilities they could offer in the area, and defining future approaches for more sustainable development. For that purpose, relations between former railway nodes and their surrounding environment are studied considering transport and land use in the non-motorized influence areas. Existing node/place models were adapted and a multiaxial model was created to measure the balance between transport and land use and typify the defined area. The proposed methodology was applied in a case study, classifying node areas in different development typologies that will be related to different future approaches.

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Land Use Planning for Development of Environmentally Sensitive Areas: Case Study of St. Martin's Island, Bangladesh

Studies in Regional Science ◽

10.2457/srs.40.1079 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 1079-1092 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarwar JAHAN ◽

J.M. QUAMRUZZAMAN

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Sensitive Areas ◽

Environmentally Sensitive Areas ◽

Environmentally Sensitive

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Study on new construction land regulation in land use planning based on major function-oriented zoning— A case study of Lulong County, Hebei Province

CHINESE JOURNAL OF ECO-AGRICULTURE ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1011.2012.00507 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 507-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rui-Qing LIU ◽

Wei-Ya ZHU ◽

Hao XU

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Hebei Province ◽

Construction Land ◽

Major Function ◽

New Construction ◽

Land Regulation

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Prediction of spatial distribution for some land use allometric characteristics in land use planning models with geostatistic and Geographical Information System (GIS) (Case study: Boein and Miandasht, Isfahan Province, Iran)

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ◽

10.5897/ajb11.995 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (91) ◽

pp. 15771-15778

Author(s):

Peykanpourfard Parvaneh ◽

Monavvari Masoud ◽

Asghar Alesheikh Ali ◽

Chamani Atefeh ◽

Ghanbari Fariba

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Information System ◽

Spatial Distribution ◽

Geographical Information System ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Isfahan Province ◽

Planning Models

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Scale, context, and application of traditional knowledge of the Canadian north

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247400014959 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 34 (188) ◽

pp. 31-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Frank Duerden ◽

Richard G. Kuhn

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Resource Management ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Primary Role ◽

Land Claims ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Physical Environments ◽

The Many

AbstractThere is strong contemporary interest in the application of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) of physical environments and land-use patterns in northern Canada. This interest relates to land claims, land-use planning, cultural preservation, resource management, and environmental monitoring. The application of TEK to land and resource management is critically examined and a typology relating scale, user group, and the transformation of knowledge is developed. Of the many challenges facing the incorporation of TEK in resource-management initiatives, perhaps the greatest is the recognition of the appropriateness of scale. The conclusions reached in this paper reaffirm the notion that scale and context are key components in maintaining the validity and integrity of TEK. The primary role of TEK appears to be with providing the most valid and intelligible interpretations of local geographies and prescribing locally appropriate resource-management strategies.

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Constraints on property rating in the Offinso South Municipality of Ghana

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance ◽

10.5130/cjlg.v0i13/14.3725 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 77-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nicholas Addai Boamah

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Property Tax ◽

Planning System ◽

Public Confidence ◽

Administration System ◽

Land Use Regulations ◽

Property Owners ◽

Municipal Assembly

The potential of property rate has been least tapped by decentralized governments in Ghana. This paper investigates the property rating system in Ghana through a case study of Offinso South Municipality (OSM). Questionnaires were used to gather empirical data from property owners in the municipality. The paper finds that there is inadequate property tax administration system and high public disdain for the property tax in OSM, with a significant association between compliance with the property tax and land use regulations in OSM. The paper suggests that the Offinso South Municipal Assembly (OSMA) should improve its land use planning system to facilitate voluntary compliance with the property tax. OSMA should also address accountability and transparency problems in the property tax system in order to increase public confidence in the tax regime. The OSMA should also improve on the property tax collection modes by computerising the billing and collection processes.

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